Show Let National Defense II II Guide Your Resolutions Resolution L j By RUTH MILLETT Because I want to be an asset Instead of a liability to my country country country coun coun- try in 1942 I resolve NOT to be bethe bethe bethe the kind of a woman who Spreads they say say say- war rumors rumors rumors ru ru- ru- ru mors just for the joy of having something to tell at the bridge club Thinks It Is all right for every everyone's everyone's everyone's ones one's son but her own to defend America Makes national defense an excuse excuse excuse ex ex- cuse for joining more and becoming a member more committees than she c can cE I serve faithfully Suspects as less than loy loyal loya Americans everyone she doesn't doesn't t I like and whose opinions o on world affairs dont don't exactly match hers M Pessimist Enjoys talking pessimistically about the war and the future f. f America Has a comfortable place ito ta live enough to eat and wear and yet crabs about how much defense de de- defense is costing M Has no men in her family el eK eI for the draft and yet has the nerve to tell teU women how they should behave In It Looks down on the man Wh doesn't enlist and does a lot rot rf talking about what she woi yo do If she were a man Thinks if a man is a hes he's not the type typo of a man she wants her daughter to o date ate Dont Don't Be Leme L Lame Brain me-Br me Brein in Feels that if It she doesn't go around talking about how depressed depressed depressed de de- pressed she feels people will think she's a lame f Thinks that having to give up upa P a few things because of government government govern govern- ment priorities Is a terrible hardship J Thinks It Is necessary to talk about how overworked she Is Gets the war jitters and gives them to her family |